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The Wolverine Cast Gets Deadly In Six New Character Portraits
1 hour ago
Not only does James Mangold's The Wolverine promise to expand the world of the X-Men franchise - moving the bulk of the film's plot and action over to Japan - it will also be playing host to a full new cast of characters. With the exception of the titular hero and Famke Janssen's Jean Grey in a cameo role, the film is actually almost entirely made up of characters never before seen in a live-action feature, making an interesting standout in the series. In the past few months there have been a number of trailers, previews and images that have helped introduce these new figures, but today IGN is giving them the spotlight. The site has posted six new portraits from the movie that show off Yukio, Mariko, Viper, and Silver Samurai, four new characters that will be ushered into the comic book movie universe when The Wolverine »
Christian Bale Won't Be Justice League's Batman
3 hours ago
With Zack Snyder's Man of Steel having already made over $500 million worldwide, it's pretty clear that audiences have accepted star Henry Cavill as the new cinematic Superman that we will be seeing for years to come. The future of Batman, however, remains completely up in the air. Before the release of Man of Steel there were endless rumors suggesting that either Christian Bale or Joseph Gordon-Levitt was going to cameo in movie and create a tie between the new version of Superman and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy - and while that ended up not being the case, still many wonder if there's any chance that either star could return as the Caped Crusader in the planned Justice League movie. Today it seems that one of the stars has firmly shut that door. Entertainment Weekly recently had the chance to catch up with Bale, who has the new »
Kevin Hart And Ice Cube Team Up Buddy Cop Style In First Ride Along Trailer
4 hours ago
With The Heat scoring the top spot at the box office this past weekend, driven by the comedic power of Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, people seem to be in the mood for buddy cop films, which could very well explain why today we are getting the very first trailer for the new comedy Ride Along (via the film's official YouTube channel). Directed by Tim Story, who scored a big hit last year with his adaptation of Steve Harvey's Think Like A Man, the film stars Hart as a school security guard named Ben who has fallen deeply in love with his girlfriend (Tika Sumpter). He wants to ask for her hand in marriage, but instead of seeking her father's approval, he instead needs to reach out to her brother James (Ice Cube), a hardcore police officer who isn't a big fan our protagonist. When Ben tells his potential »
Ender's Game Character Posters Show Us Kids And Adults Suited Up For War
4 hours ago
From a Comic Con perspective, Ender's Game's release is set up at a pretty great spot. Summit has months to continue to build up buzz for the feature adaptation of the popular sci-fi novel, and Sdcc falls closer to the start of that anticipated wave. The studio has already previously debuted the first official trailer for the film, as well as the more recently released propaganda posters. The latest posters were leaked online, and give us a look at some of the characters for the film, including Asa Butterfield as the film's lead character Ender Wiggin, a gifted child recruited to attend a space-set battle school where other kids are training for the expected second war against an alien race. These unofficially released Ender's Game character posters were shared over at EnderNews, crediting Movienewz.com. This next one shows us Harrison Ford as Graff, the colonel who's keeping an »
Why The Hell Didn't You See White House Down?
4 hours ago
White House Down became a mystifying flop this weekend, making just $25 million and watching The Heat run away with all its buddy cop buzz. But White House Down had two really charismatic stars and a bunch of crazy moments and flippin' Roland Emmerich behind it! What the hell happened? Katey and Sean-- who have already, full disclosure, declared their love for the movie in front of the actual White House-- try to figure it out below. Do we blame Olympus Has Fallen? The Heat? Is it all Channing Tatum's fault? Help us solve the mystery. Katey: Sean, we are both heartbroken today. It is a sad day for America. It is the day that we have to admit that our fellow Americans have failed us. Sean: And completely shocked us. By turning their backs on White House Down, audiences appear to have blasted a gaping hole in the middle »
Joey King Teaches Us To Show No Fear In White House Down
5 hours ago
Usually in movies you can threaten to endanger the lives of children or dogs, but never show either of them in anything close to resembling real peril. But White House Down, despite being a pretty lighthearted and massively entertaining action movie, really goes for it when it comes time for a little girl to stand up for herself-- and the life of the President-- to a terrorist who has a gun to her head. And the actress who's up to that massive challenge is Joey King, a 13-year-old who has been absolutely everywhere lately. You might recognize her as Ramona from Ramona and Beezus, as Steve Carell and Julianne Moore's young daughter in Crazy Stupid Love, as "older prison child" (a.k.a. young Talia Al Ghul) in The Dark Knight Rises) or as the voice of the China Girl in this year's Oz The Great And Powerful. In »
The Hobbit Launches Brand New Video Blog, Won't Be Heading To Comic Con
5 hours ago
When production ended last year on The Hobbit, we all assumed that it was the last time that Peter Jackson would be filming in the bounds of Middle Earth. The epic story was going to be told in two separate parts - An Unexpected Journey and There and Back Again - and after months production it appeared as though they had absolutely everything they needed. But then the story completely changed. Reports came out announcing that the great J.R.R. Tolkien story would actually be split into three parts, the second being titled The Desolation of Smaug, and with that announcement came news that the production would be swinging back into full gear down in New Zealand during the summer of 2013. And when The Hobbit is filming, that means it's time for more video blogs. This past weekend we learned that both Sir Ian McKellen and Orlando Bloom have »
Prepare For The World's End With The Famous Newton Haven Golden Mile Pub Crawl
7 hours ago
Prepare ye, prepare ye, for the pub crawl to end all pub crawls. because, actually, after this one, pub crawls and everything else on this earth may be over entirely, at least for everyone except the robots. But of course, before you can reach the pub called The World's End, you've got to do the full Newton Haven Golden Mile Pub Crawl. And what is Newton Haven you may be asking? Well, that's what this promotional video is here to tell you. If you can get past the grainy 70s cinematography, you may notice that things go a little haywire at the 40-second mark. and that's what we're really looking forward to seeing when The World's End finally comes to theaters on August 23. If you can't wait that long, and you're planning to make your way to San Diego Comic Con in a few weeks, you're in a for a »
Second Inside Llewyn Davis Trailer Keeps On Breaking Our Hearts
7 hours ago
How much more do I need to say beyond .It.s the new Coen Brothers movie. to get you interested in Inside Llewyn Davis? The above trailer, posted on Apple, should hook you . if the original (and equally spectacular) red-band teaser didn.t already whet your whistle. Here it is again, just to refresh your memory. Honestly, if the rhythms of the dialogue, the pacing of the scenery, and the heartbreaking use of Bob Dylan in the red-band clip don.t get your pulse racing for Inside Llewyn Davis, then this movie isn.t for you. And I'm not sure we can be friends. The new trailer strums different folk music, but bathes in the same period lighting that gives the new film a nostalgic texture. The use of the folk songs instantly reminds me of the siblings. brilliant, brilliant O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- a movie that several »
Monsters, Monsters And More Monsters In Kaiju-Heavy Pacific Rim Featurette
7 hours ago
We really like giant freakin. robots around here, as evidenced by our sister site, Giant Freakin. Robot, and Guillermo Del Toro.s Pacific Rim will bring out the big bots in droves. But the massive promotional campaign for the film has already taken us on a behind-the-scenes trip inside the robots. So what about the giant freakin. monsters? (And I.m not talking about our fictional horror-related site, Giant Freakin. Monster.) The above video, courtesy of io9, takes us up close and personal with the variety of gigantic Kaiju that come out of an ocean rift to make life on Earth more difficult than it already is. And thankfully it isn.t just rehashed conversations in which Del Toro professes his love for old Japanese movies, although the first minute or so makes damn sure we all know what Kaiju are, both as beasts and as a film genre. Soon »
Divergent Comic-Con Plans Revealed
8 hours ago
There are multiple movies that we know are going to be in San Diego for Comic-Con 2013 . films like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire or a full slate of Marvel projects. And then there are the titles that were assumed to be in attendance, but were waiting on confirmation. Today, Divergent moves from the .Maybe. column to the .See You There. column. Summit Entertainment announced details for Divergent at Comic-Con, including a Hall H panel on Thursday, July 18, that will include (according to a press release) our first look at footage from the film, followed by a Q-and-a with a celebrity panel that will include novelist Veronica Roth, director Neil Burger, and cast members Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, Ansel Elgort, Mekhi Phifer, Ben Lamb, Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Christian Madsen. Wait, you don.t know what Divergent is yet? Fair enough. The film.s »
Man Of Steel Behind-The-Scenes Video Explains Its Coolest Special Effects
9 hours ago
There are a million reasons that Man of Steel is such a huge global hit, already having made more than half a billion dollars worldwide and on its way to much more. People like Superman. People like action movies. People like big action movies. But really, more than anything, people like big action movies that look great-- not only using impressive visual effects but creating images that are nothing like we've ever seen before. Zack Snyder has always been skilled at focusing on the visual elements of his films, from the sepia tones of 300 to the speed-ramping of Watchmen to the overwhelming (and ridiculous) glitz of Sucker Punch. Man of Steel is, if anything, a bit less stylized than those films, but they make up for it with the visual effects, which set up from the very beginning that Superman's home planet of Krypton is not like any outer space »
Win Tickets To The Insidious Chapter 2 Fan Experience At San Diego Comic Con!
10 hours ago
San Diego Comic Con is coming up in a few short weeks, and there's never a lack of things to see or do, both in the convention center or all over the streets of San Diego that surround it. If you've never been to Comic Con it's almost impossible to describe just how busy it gets there, with entire storefronts and buildings taken over by movie studios or game companies, all of them trying to give you a unique experience to help you remember their project. And while Comic Con hasn't kicked off yet, we feel pretty confident that we're going to offer you access to one of the most spectacular, and definitely most terrifying, events of this year's Comic Con. We're offering our San Diego-bound readers the chance to enter the exclusive Insidious Chapter 2 Fan Experience, where Insidious 2 invites you to go further. Once you enter the haunted loft »
The Cabin In The Woods Will Come To Life At Universal Orlando This Fall
11 hours ago
Are you ready to enter the Cabin in the Woods? If you've seen Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's movie, you may not be so quick to cast yourself into that situation, as most of the characters didn't enjoy their stay in the titular Cabin. But if it's fictional horror-inspired fun you're looking for, you may consider a trip to Universal Studios Orlando this Fall, as the theme park will be featuring a The Cabin in the Woods-inspired attraction for a limited time during the Halloween season. If you haven't seen The Cabin in the Woods, the vague description is that it centers on a group of college kids who set off for a fun weekend away at a cabin (in the woods). Bad things happen from there, but there's a bigger twist to the story. Where Cabin truly shines is in the way it weaves horror, suspense and humor, »
Now That The Heat Is A Hit, Here Are 7 More Buddy Cop Pairs We Want To See
11 hours ago
The Heat is the surprise hit of the weekend, bringing in a whopping $40 million and continuing Melissa McCarthy's remarkable winning streak of pretty much whatever comedy she wants to make. Between this and last year's 21 Jump Street (and even this weekend's other release White House Down, in its own way) we seem to have found ourselves in a kind of meta-revival of the buddy cop movie. Everyone knows that the genre is done to death, so they're working overtime to make something unique out of it-- like a story about two women, or a meta-comedy that knows it's a comedy, or. well, who knows what might be next? We haven't been this excited about seeing two mismatched cops take on a case since Murtaugh and Riggs first got on each others nerves, and we're already scheming up with more pairs of unlikely partners who we could see bring down »
One Of James Gandolfini's Final Roles May Be His Most Revealing, Says Co-Star Toni Collette
11 hours ago
Here at Cinema Blend we're still reeling from the sudden death of James Gandolfini, who recently passed away from a heart attack at 51. Of course, he was best known for his celebrated starring role in The Sopranos, but his contribution to film has been so fantastic that many of us have been hard-pressed to pick our favorite performance. Maybe it was his corkscrew-threatening thug in True Romance. Or his anti-war general in In the Loop? His maniacal hitman in Killing Them Softly? Or his emotional monster in Where the Wild Things Are? But it may be too soon to decide. Two of the late Gandolfini's films will be released posthumously, Animal Rescue written by detective novelist Dennis Lehane, and Nicole Holofcener's upcoming comedy Enough Said. Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Gandolfini's Enough Said co-star Toni Collette for The Way, Way Back, and I asked »
Orlando Bloom Is Taking The Hobbits To Isengard In Amazing Set Video
12 hours ago
I may have my timeline mixed up here, but the "They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard" remix is one of the first viral videos I can remember, right there with "Lazy Sunday" as a video passed around among people either before YouTube or right at the beginning of the service. Something about Orlando Bloom's weirdly stiff performance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy seemed to lend itself to this kind of dance remix. And Bloom, bless him, has enough of a sense of humor to play along, just as he finishes playing the character for the very last time. The video you see above was posted by Peter Jackson to his very active Facebook page, along with this message: A day after saying goodbye to Gandalf and Tauriel, it was time to farewell Legolas. What a great day it was, with Orlando battling a serious Orc for all »
Roland Emmerich Reveals Which Real-LIfe President Is A Fan Of His Work
13 hours ago
Roland Emmerich has blown up the White House with an alien laser beam, knocked it over with an aircraft carrier, and allowed the entirety of Washington D.C. to be laid waste by total global apocalypse. But would you believe that the man who actually lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-- that would be former President Bill Clinton-- is a fan of his work? Emmerich is a man full of surprises, even if you've grown up on his movies like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow and think you know all there is about the king of disaster movies. He's a soft-spoken, extremely friendly guy who seems to love his work, getting just as excited about uncovering the secret identity of Shakespeare as a car chase on the lawn of the White House. He's also one of the few directors who can start work on a sequel nearly two decades »
White House Down's Jamie Foxx And Channing Tatum Reveal The Secret To Their Bromance
14 hours ago
You don't even have to see White House Down to know that its stars, Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, are pretty into each other. The two have been unofficially doing publicity for the movie for months now, starting with their post-Oscars appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which brought us the instant ear worm classic "Channing All Over Your Tatum." It involved Tatum writhing on a piano and shoving everyones' minds into the gutter. It was pretty great. By the time they followed it up with a full-fledged music video last week it was pretty obvious that the chemistry between Capitol cop John Cale (Tatum) and President James Sawyer (Foxx) was going to be one of the main reasons to see White House Down, the new action movie in which terrorists take over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and only one man can help get the President out alive. It also helps that the »
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